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"The World" is a poem by American writer Robert Creeley. First published in 1962, the poem describes a man struggling to provide comfort to his wife in the middle of the night. Creeley was a prominent member of the Black Mountain Poets, a group of...

Published in 1995, The Jade Peony is author Wayson Choy’s first novel. The settings and themes reflect Choy's own experiences growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown neighborhood. The book was a significant critical success, and has been subsequently...

The early nineteenth century was not a good time to be a female writer -- particularly if one was audacious enough to be a female novelist. Contemporary beliefs held that no one would be willing to read the work of a woman; the fantastic success...

“In the Park” is a poem by Gwen Harwood that describes the experience and thoughts of a woman with three young children who encounters her former lover at a park. The poem was first published in 1961 under the pseudonym Walter Lehmann. Throughout...

Second Class Citizen is a novel written by Nigerian-born author Buchi Emecheta. It concerns a young Nigerian girl’s dream to move to the United Kingdom in pursuit of a better life. After arriving in London, she grapples with her cruel husband, the...

Anatomy of a Scandal tells the story of a man called James, a man and public figure who seemingly has everything going for him. He has a doting wife, is charismatic, financially comfortable, intelligent, and handsome. James, however, is accused of...

Michael Connelly's novel The Reversal (released in 2010), marks the third appearance of one of his most popular characters: defense attorney Mickey Haller. Fundamentally, the novel follows Haller, who is recruited to prosecute the retrial of a...

Author Michael Connelly is responsible for some of the most popular contemporary characters. He created the character of detective Harry Bosch and defense attorney Mickey Haller (among a number of other characters), both of whom are the main...

The Lincoln Lawyer, author Michael Connelly's 16th novel, introduces readers to a criminal defense lawyer called Mickey Haller. Mickey practices law out of his Lincoln town car driven by one of his clients who is working off his legal fees (many...

Written by American novelist Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus (released in 2021) tells the story of the eponymous Netanyahu family. Set in a college in upstate New York in the late 1950s, the novel specifically tells the fictionalized story of...

Published to widespread success in 1847 under the androgynous pseudonym of "Currer Bell," the novel "Jane Eyre" catapulted 31-year-old Charlotte Brontë into the upper echelon of Victorian writers. With the novel's success, Brontë was able to...

Marriage Story is a drama film written and directed by filmmaker Noah Baumbach. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and was later released in theatres and on digital streaming platforms. Despite the title, it explores the events...

Written by MacArthur grant winning economist and leading feminist Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart (2002) is presented as a new take on the connection between family values and economics. In the book, Folbre explores a central question: how does...

Eye in the Sky is a war drama film directed by South African filmmaker Gavin Hood. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2015 with a wide release the following year. Though parts of the film are set in Nairobi,...

Set in the eponymous Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways, Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom is a short story cycle novel (a collection of short stories which are designed to be read together) that is the fourth novel in...

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger is a short story cycle novel (a novel comprised of thirty separate stories which are designed to be read together rather than apart) which is the third book in the eponymous Wayside School series. It tells the...

Written by esteemed children's author Louis Sachar, Wayside School is Falling Down is the second book in the critically acclaimed, bestselling series Wayside School series. Like its predecessor, Wayside School is Falling Down is a short story...

After college, author Louis Sachar said that he was only interested in ever writing one book for children. That book became Sideways Stories from Wayside School. After the tremendous critical, popular, and financial success of Sideways Stories...

Set in the 1850s and first published in 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt’s "The Passing of Grandison" is a short story about a Southern slave owner's son's attempt to free a slave whose stubborn loyalty foils his plans.

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“I Think of Thee” is an Italian sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which first appeared in her 1850 collection Sonnets from the Portuguese. In the work, a speaker describes her desire to imagine and fantasize about a lover, who is addressed in...

Walter Benjamin’s essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" has become one of the landmark texts in the field of cultural theory. Benjamin was a fringe member of a highly influential group of German intellectuals in the 1930s...

"Danse Russe" is an early poem by William Carlos Williams, published in 1916, about a young father dancing alone in front of a mirror. Williams was a major figure in the Imagism and Modernism literary movements. In his poetry, he focused on paring...

"Mrs Midas" is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy, a Scottish poet and former British Poet Laureate. As its name implies, “Mrs Midas” is a creative, subtle retelling of the Greek myth of Midas’s touch. In the myth, King Midas is granted a wish by...

"Between Walls" is a poem by American writer William Carlos Williams about shards of a glass bottle hidden in the back area of a hospital. First published in 1938, the work, like much of Williams's poetry, focuses on the depiction of scene and the...